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...Harrison#Administration and Cabinet|Harrison cabinet]] and some members of Congress. Members of Harrison's cabinet feared an ''acting'' leader would compromise ...as a Democratic-Republican to the [[14th United States Congress|Fourteenth Congress]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of [[John Clopton]]. He was reele

...[[President of the Continental Congress|President of the United States, in Congress Assembled]]</small> <br /> ...n Congress called its presiding officer "President of the United States in Congress Assembled." He had no executive powers, but the similarity of titles has co

....<ref>Graff, 15; Nevins, 46</ref> With the [[American Civil War]] raging, Congress passed the [[Conscription Act of 1863]], requiring able-bodied men to serve ...vins, 64</ref> Bass did not spend much time at the firm, being elected to Congress in 1873, but Cleveland and Bissell soon found themselves at the top of Buff

...ard for him to do so, as the Boston Brahmin Peirces sympathized with the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]]. At the Survey, he worked mainly in [[geode ...hical movement known as [[pragmatism]]. Peirce believed that any truth is provisional, and that the truth of any proposition cannot be certain but only probable.